Feature: Exhibition- Former Parliament Hill pupil Ella Phillips at the Indo Bar
Published: 04 November 2010
IT'S almost as if Ella Phillips has become a remarkable painter in spite of herself. The 26-year-old former Parliament Hill school pupil did languages and literature at university and has since been a locksmith and a florist – no art training.
But all the time, she’s been painting and now, it seems, she’s finally committing to art.
Her fresh and beautiful work is on show at the Indo Bar in Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, until the end of the month. Ella who is self-taught, works mainly in acrylics and oils and has produced an impressive portfolio which brims with the enthusiasm and curiosity of her life as a young Londoner. “Whittington Park” – a beautiful composition entwining a human with a tree, is marvellous. And there are some portraits she did – as a right-handed person – with her left hand. “It makes you concentrate on details in a different way,” she says.
Now she has embarked on a series of paintings of London people linked by narrative connections beginning with a blind violinist busker in Oxford Street. “I love the connections between people in London,” she says.
• Ella Phillips is at the Indo Bar, 133 Whitechapel Road, E1 until December 1, www.Ellaphillipsportfolio.com/